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EAP749/4
- Record Id:
- 032-003317919
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003317919
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034269426.0x000073
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP749/4
- Title:
- The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsewang Namgyal
- Scope & Content:
-
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsewang Namgyal. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include modern western-style bound books (teb); religious scroll paintings (thangka) often illustrating a particular story (namthar thangka); the elaborate costume of a head Buchen; musical instruments; statues; and other religious, ritual and performance-related items. Buchen are actors, storytellers, exorcists and occasional healers. They are lay religious practitioners whose role is to spread the Dharma (teachings of the Buddha) often through entertainment. 4 Series: Texts, Thangkas, Objects and portraits
The material is owned by Meme Tsewang / Chhewang Namgyal and has been handed down through several generations of Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Texts, paintings and other material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003317919", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP749/4: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsewang Namgyal" },{ "id" : "036-003317920", "parent" : "032-003317919", "text" : "EAP749/4/1: Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)" },{ "id" : "040-003317921", "parent" : "036-003317920", "text" : "EAP749/4/1/1: མཁའ་འགྲོའི་བུ་མོ་འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོ༏ Drowa Zangmo Thankga Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "036-003317922", "parent" : "032-003317919", "text" : "EAP749/4/2: Objects" },{ "id" : "040-003317923", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/1: Charm Box: Nam thak (Wylie rnam thag) རྣམ་ཐག Early 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317924", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/2: Dagger: Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317925", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/3: Swords: Ralti (Wylie ral gri) རལ་གྲི Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317926", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/4: Iron pointer: Chak Dhar (Wylie lcags mda'') ལྕགས་མདའ Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317927", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/5: Bell: Drilbu (Wylie dril bu) དྲིལ་བུ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317928", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/6: Conch shell chest ornament: Tonka (Wylie thong ga) ཐོང་ག Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317929", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/7: Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Mid 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317930", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/8: Water bowls: ing (Wylie ting) ཏིང Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317931", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/9: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317932", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/10: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Early 21st century" },{ "id" : "040-003317933", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/11: Charm Box: Kau (Wylie ga’u) གའུ། Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317934", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/12: Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317935", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/13: Ritual Thunderbolt: Vajra/ dorje Dorje (Wylie rdo rje རྡོ་རྗེ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317936", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/14: Necklace: Oltic (Wylie ol tig) ཨོལ་ཏིག Early 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317937", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/15: Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Early 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317938", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/16: Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Late 2oth century" },{ "id" : "040-003317939", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/17: Bow and Arrow Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317940", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/18: Damaru Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317941", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/19: Dazar Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317942", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/20: Kogpo Mid 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317943", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/21: Norbu Mebar. Wish fulfilling gem. A cloth attached to the head of the Elephant (Langpoche) in the play Drimet Kunden Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317944", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/22: Lugsi Bag Mid to late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317945", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/23: Mask Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317946", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/24: Mask Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317947", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/25: Mask Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317948", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/26: Needle box and cloth Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317949", "parent" : "036-003317922", "text" : "EAP749/4/2/27: Rosary: Trengwa (Wylie phreng ba) ཕྲེང་བ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "036-003317950", "parent" : "032-003317919", "text" : "EAP749/4/3: Portraits" },{ "id" : "040-003317951", "parent" : "036-003317950", "text" : "EAP749/4/3/1: Meme Buchen in full Costume" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003317919
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP749/4/1 : Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
EAP749/4/2 : Objects
EAP749/4/3 : Portraits
Click here to View / search full list of parts of EAP749/4 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003317919
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP749/4
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 129 Tiff images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP749-4
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 17th century-20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Latitude (Decimal):
- 31.959165
- Longitude (Decimal):
- 78.032652
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
- Custodial History:
- The digital images in this collection were created as part of the EAP749 ''The narrative and ritual texts, narrative paintings and other performance related material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India - major project''
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from project holder Professor Patrick Sutherland, February 2016 (Accession record EAP749/1)
- Administrative Context:
- EAP749 was funded by Endangered Archives Programme. This collection created digital copies of records owned by Meme Tsewang Namgyal
- Information About Copies:
- Copies of this material are located at the British Library and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala
- Information About Originals:
- The original material remains with Meme Tsewang Namgyal
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)